Printing-machine.



J. L. FIRM.

PRINTING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB.5, 1910.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

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PRINTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED 212.15, 1910.

Patented 0012.4, 1910.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

J$E .H FIRM 1-? B B N I L S G QR O T E G055 BM 'J-IING PRESS co rA Y, or crncne'o, rLLInors. 1

PRINTING-MACHINE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 5, 1919. Serial No. 542,343,

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,3 it known h Q s BH L- F M, citizen of the United States, residing at Berwyn, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and use- 1 plicated magaz nes or pamphlets, stapled,

cut and'folded, in se' larate'signatures, at one operation. To pro uce a machine of this I use one form'and one impression cylinder to each deck; at the same time I- use -a half width web-that is, a web half the w dth of the entire length of the cylindersand reverse the web and shift it to the-oppositeside 'of the cylinders, so that the first passage of the web prints one side thereof by contact with the half of the cylinder at one end, and the other side of the web is printed b contact with the half of the cylinder at t e other end, in its'second passage; thence slitting, turning and foldmg the web lon 'tudinally, thence cutting,

stapling and fo ding the slit webs transver'sely, thence delivering the products to a moIvin a rob.- f

n t e rawin o m I rintin ress as I prefer to'emb dy it, F%lr6 l ig a 'agrammatic side elevation. ig. 2 is an end elevation, the paper rolls bemg removed. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic side elevation of a modification.

The press as shown consists of two printing mechanisms A and B, 1printing, res ectively, on rolls C, D and and F. T ese two sets of 'printlng mechanisms A and B, as is shown in Fig; 1, are arranged in decks, one on to of the other, an upper deckconsisting 0 one form and one impression cylinder, and a lower deck of one form and one impression cylinder, with their appropriate inking devices together'with fo r and stapling mechanism at, the middle. I

do not wish to confine myself to this particularconstruction for they may have one or more decks adde or mayhave decks side diameter of the same. The column rules of theplates'may be at right angle or parallel t th ax s i 'th e yl n er In the P nt Case I i n ach rm yl nd r. fo doi b fe plates around and four ages wide making 32 pages-oneach'half 0 the'fo'rm cylinder;

with column rules parallel to the axis ofthe form "cylinden'each plate having two pages thereon, making magazines or pamphlets of 16 or 32 pages, from each deck, slit, cut, stapled and folded. i It is nnderstoodthat by adding webs from Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

each of the other decks -the size ofthe' prod ucts is enlarged, as to the number of pages, and the pamphlets increased, as the four decks are alike in their essential characteristics, and a description of one deck in detail will be -sufficient for all of them;

InFig, 1, C is a roll or web of paper passing over the .rollers 12, to impression cylinder 3, and is printed upon-one side by one half of form cylinder 4, thencearound the roller 5, thence over the turingvbarsfi, under the roller 7, back toimpression cylin-' der 3, and is printed on its reverse side on the other half of form cylinder 4, thence under the roller 8, and is slit by the slitter 9, thence over the bars 10-11 and between the rollers 12, 13, 14, where it meets the'web This web D passes over the rollers 15, 16,

thence to impression cylinder 17, and is printed upon by one half of form cylinder 18, on one side, thence over the roller 19, to the turning bars 20 and under the roller 21, thence to impression cylinder 17, and is printed upon itsreverse side by the other "half of form cylinder 18, thence passes unthence passes over the roller 31, to the turning bars 32, thence under the roller 33, t0.

impression cylinder 29, and is printed on the der the roller 20*,and slit by the slitter 21", thence over theturning bars 2223 and unreverse side by the other half of form cylinder 30, thence under theroller 34, over the turning bars 35, 36, and between the rollers 37, 38, where it meets, the web .F. This web F passes over the rollers 39, 10,

and is printed on its first sideby half of impression cylinder 41, on form cylinder 42,

thence passes under the roller 43, and over the turning bars 44, 45, thence under the roller 46, and over impression cylinder 41, and is printed on its reverse side by the other half of form cylinder 42, thence under the roller 47, and is slit by slitter 48, thence over the bars- 49, 50, thence under the roller 51, thence between the rollers 37, 38, 39, where it meets the Web E, and is associated with the webs C and D between the rollers 25, 26 where all the webs are slit by the slitters 200 and 201, and thence pass to the stapling mechanism S (of known construction) for a finished product.

As a modification the longitudinal folders 100, 101,'wh ich are shown in Fig. 3, if preferred could be used by passing the webs thereover as indicated at 102 and 103 and placing the stapling mechanism at right angles and leading the longitudinally folded webs thereto.

It is to be understood that an off-set web can be used if desired in the same manner as shown in Fig. 1, of U. S. patent to me 'No. 677737, July 2, 1901. Also as to the manner of turning the web over bars to reverse it for its second printing, see Fig. 7, of same patent.

\Vhat I claim as new is In a multiple Web printing machine, the combination of two sets of web-perfecting printing mechanisms arranged end to end, each set including a plurality of decks spaced from each other and each deck including cylinder printing couples, means to feed webs from rolls into opposite ends of the machine, for the respective decks, means to pass the webs twice through said couple, once at each end, including turning devices located in the spaces between the decks, a stapling, transverse cutting and folding mechanism between the adjacent ends of said sets, and means to associate and deliver the webs from the respective sets to said stapling, transverse-cutting and folding mechanism. I

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH L. FIRM. Witnesses:

AMELIA B. FIRM, MATILDA GEDERT. 

